Piper PA-12
N7977H is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Mmwbc LLC, an LLC in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 22, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-873
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD55B (octal 52552533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 22, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00965290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mmwbc LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 20 Found Horse Trl
Hamilton, MT 59840
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N7977H, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Mmwbc LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 1, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1957, 11 years after the 1946 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-873 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7977H according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N7977H: Accident on September 29, 2004 at Perham, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
The dual student's improper compensation for the crosswind condition and his subsequent failure to maintain control of the airplane. An additional cause was the flight instructor's inadequate remedial action. A contributing factor was the crosswind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA285 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data